WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Shinto is polytheistic, involving the veneration of many deities known as kami, or sometimes as jingi.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Japanese Religion Shinto (literally “the way of the gods”) is Japan’s native belief system and predates historical records. The many practices, attitudes, and institutions that have developed to make up Shinto revolve around the Japanese land and seasons and their relation with the human inhabitants.

Detailed explanation-3: -And, to top it all, many Japanese believe in several faiths at once. This does not indicate confusion or inner conflict. For Oriental religions are, as a rule, not mutually exclusive, as are Christianity and Mohammedanism; the average Japanese is a polytheist, or more exactly, a henotheist.